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Explore the channels, podcasts, studios, and media behind the conversations selected by Ooléle.
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Meet the peopleUniversity urban research initiative
21st Century Cities Initiative
The 21st Century Cities Initiative is a Johns Hopkins University initiative focused on urban change. Its events bring researchers and practitioners together around housing, governance, inequality and technologies that reshape city life.
Cities · Housing · Governance
Company history and strategy podcast
Acquired
Acquired is a podcast created and hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. The series tells the histories and strategies of major companies through long-form episodes designed as narrative investigations rather than commentary on current news. Its recurring question is why one company worked spectacularly while many others failed.
Strategy · Company history · Technology
Media and cultural discovery platform
Afrofeeling
Afrofeeling is an Afro-optimistic media platform highlighting talent, companies, cultures and initiatives from across Africa. It combines a magazine, directory, events calendar, videos and podcasts to make people and expertise more visible across subjects including business, design, tourism, culture, food and wellbeing.
African entrepreneurship · Culture · Leadership
Business, technology and society conversation podcast
All-In Podcast
The All-In Podcast brings together Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg for conversations about business, technology and society. Born when their weekly poker game was interrupted during the pandemic, the program combines discussions among the four hosts with guest interviews.
Business · Technology · Society
Educational organization and public forum
The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is a nonprofit educational organization that runs programs, conferences and conversations about leadership and public issues. Its channel preserves discussions with executives, researchers and civic leaders.
Leadership · Society · Public policy
Technology, markets and investing podcast
BG2
BG2 is an open-source podcast about technology, markets, investing and capitalism. It is hosted by Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter, and Bill Gurley, a former general partner at Benchmark. Episodes combine market analysis, strategic readings of the technology industry and conversations with business leaders.
Technology · Markets · Investing
Business media and video publisher
Bloomberg Originals
Bloomberg Originals produces investigations, documentaries and video series about companies, markets, technology and power. Its formats combine data, archives, testimony and responses from the organizations being examined.
Companies · Investigations · Technology
Financial education community and publisher
Bogleheads
Bogleheads is a financial education community inspired by the legacy of John C. Bogle. Its ecosystem includes a forum, wiki, conferences, local chapters, books, a podcast and a YouTube channel. The John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy carries the educational mission and owns the Bogleheads trademark.
Financial education · Index investing · Asset allocation
Public news organization and publisher
CBC News
CBC News is the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It publishes reporting, interviews and investigations about Canada and the world, including Marketplace, a program focused on business practices and consumer protection.
News · Investigations · Consumers
Technology-focused video journalism series
Cleo Abram: Huge If True
Cleo Abram publishes Huge If True, a video journalism series about technologies and scientific advances that may shape the future. Its format combines deep explanations, visual reporting and critical optimism. The same channel also hosts HUGE* Conversations, a long-form interview format.
Technology · Science · Artificial intelligence
Conversation podcast about race, identity and lived experience
Colour-Full Podcast
Colour-Full Podcast is a conversation series hosted by Stacy Jayne and Sena Zungu. Launched in 2024, it examines race, privilege, identity and social realities through personal experience and dialogue with guests. Its name deliberately retains the British spelling and hyphen used by the publisher.
Identity · Race and privilege · Lived experience
Computing history museum, archive and publisher
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum is a Silicon Valley institution that examines computing’s ongoing impact on the world. Its mission is to decode the computing past, digital present and technology’s future impact on humanity. It pursues that work through research, exhibits, events, and an extensive collection of artifacts and stories.
Computing history · Archives · Oral history
Collaborative design company and publisher
Figma
Figma develops collaborative tools for designing interfaces and digital products. Its channel publishes demonstrations, conversations and Config conference sessions where designers and executives examine creative practice, collaboration and work organization.
Design · Product · Collaboration
Financial independence and lifestyle-design podcast
Find Your Freedom by Becky Blake
Find Your Freedom is a podcast created and hosted by TwentyFree founder Becky Blake. Published primarily in 2020 and 2021, it combines interviews and personal episodes about financial independence, paying off debt, entrepreneurship, travel and building a life by design.
Financial independence · Lifestyle design · Debt payoff
Venture capital firm and publisher
First Round Capital
First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that publishes interviews and resources about company building. Its material often documents early product, hiring and distribution decisions through detailed practitioner accounts.
Entrepreneurship · Product · Early customers
Interview media platform and community
Founders Connect
Founders Connect is a media platform created by Peace Itimi to document the journeys of African and Black founders, operators and innovators around the world. It began with extended YouTube interviews and expanded into documentaries, public events and a community connecting the technology ecosystem with the people building it.
African startups · Founder journeys · Technology
PBS investigative documentary series
FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE is PBS’s investigative documentary series, produced at GBH in Boston. Launched in 1983, it publishes long-form reporting on politics, economics, conflict, justice, health and social change, then extends that work across the web and video platforms.
Investigative journalism · Documentary film · Economics
Venture capital firm and publisher
Greylock
Greylock is a venture capital firm that publishes conversations, lectures and analysis with founders, executives and researchers. Its channel includes material about company building, hypergrowth, culture and the effects of scale.
Entrepreneurship · Hypergrowth · Culture
Academic initiative and publisher
HBS Digital Initiative
HBS Digital Initiative publishes research and conversations about how digital technology affects business and society. Its channel brings together faculty, researchers and practitioners around platforms, data, experimentation and organizational change.
Digital platforms · Research · Data
Science podcast
Huberman Lab
Huberman Lab is a podcast created in 2021 by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman. The series explains how the brain and body shape perception, behavior and health, then connects those mechanisms to tools people can apply in daily life. Its coverage includes sleep, neuroplasticity, focus, motivation, mental health, physical fitness and recovery.
Neuroscience · Sleep · Neuroplasticity
Long-form video conversation podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan Experience, commonly shortened to JRE, is a long-form video conversation podcast hosted by Joe Rogan. Launched on December 24, 2009, it welcomes guests from fields including research, culture, sport and entrepreneurship. Its official video episodes are published on the PowerfulJRE YouTube channel.
Long-form conversations · Science · Technology
Product and company podcast
Lenny's Podcast
Lenny’s Podcast is hosted by Lenny Rachitsky and focuses on building products, growth and company organization. Its long-form interviews give practitioners time to explain their methods, decisions and the conditions in which they work.
Product · Organization · Growth
Long-form interview podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast is an interview series hosted by Lex Fridman. It brings together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, historians and public figures for extended conversations about technology, artificial intelligence, science, philosophy, history, business and the human condition.
Artificial intelligence · Technology · Science
Research laboratory and scientific publisher
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is Microsoft’s research organization. Founded in 1991, it brings together researchers across disciplines to advance science and technology in collaboration with academia, government, industry and Microsoft product teams.
Research · Artificial intelligence · Computing
Long-form interview podcast
Modern Wisdom
Modern Wisdom is an interview podcast hosted by Chris Williamson. The series invites researchers, authors, entrepreneurs, athletes and practitioners to examine useful ideas about behavior, performance, relationships, health and society. Its long-form episodes favor explanation and conversation, allowing each guest to develop a method beyond an isolated clip or slogan.
Psychology · Performance · Communication
Conference and interview publisher
New York Times Events
New York Times Events publishes conversations recorded at New York Times conferences. These interviews place public officials, executives and creators in conversation with journalists about decisions, controversies and changes in their fields.
Economy · Interviews · Governance
Artificial intelligence podcast
No Priors
No Priors is an artificial-intelligence podcast co-hosted by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil. The series speaks with engineers, researchers, founders and executives to examine the state of research, markets likely to be transformed, and AI’s effects on business, culture and society.
Artificial intelligence · Research · Startups
Interview and personal-development podcast
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
On Purpose with Jay Shetty is a podcast about meaning, relationships, wellbeing and living and working with greater intention. Jay Shetty combines extended conversations with experts, entrepreneurs, artists and public figures with solo episodes and thematic collections organized around love, the self, service and work.
Purpose and intention · Relationships · Wellbeing
Entrepreneurship program and content series
Scale with Ouss
Scale with Ouss is Oussama Ammar’s editorial and educational program about scaling companies. Its live sessions, guides and courses primarily address leaders who want to turn a business that still depends on their constant presence into an organization built around explicit systems, distributed responsibility and, in its most recent material, artificial-intelligence agents.
Business scaling · Operating systems · Customer acquisition
Investment firm and publisher
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital partners with founders as they build companies from idea to IPO and beyond. Alongside its investment work, the organization publishes perspectives, company stories, podcasts and video conversations about technology, entrepreneurship and the decisions that shape a company through its official website and channel.
Entrepreneurship · Venture capital · Company building
Business school and academic publisher
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford Graduate School of Business is Stanford University’s graduate business school. Its mission combines creating ideas that advance the understanding of management with developing innovative, principled and insightful leaders. Alongside its degree programs, Stanford GSB publishes research, podcasts, concise teaching formats and conversations with business leaders.
Management · Leadership · Entrepreneurship
University online learning platform
Stanford Online
Stanford Online is Stanford University’s online learning provider. Operated by the Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education, it connects a global audience with the teaching and research of Stanford faculty. Its offering includes credit-bearing courses, certificates and degrees, professional education, and free and open-access material.
Online learning · Engineering · Artificial intelligence
University economic policy research institute
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, or SIEPR, is Stanford’s institute for economic policy research. Founded in 1982, it produces and shares evidence-based knowledge intended to inform responses to major economic challenges. Its research and events connect scholars, policymakers, business leaders and the public.
Economic policy · Research · Innovation
Technology company and publisher
Stripe
Stripe builds programmable financial infrastructure that helps businesses accept payments, offer financial services and implement different revenue models. The company also publishes material for developers, founders and executives, including through its annual Stripe Sessions conference.
Payments · Financial infrastructure · Internet commerce
Global talks and conversation series
Talks at Google
Talks at Google is a conversation series organized by teams at Google and released freely as video. Launched in 2006, the program hosts authors, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, public leaders and other practitioners for long-form discussions in front of company employees. The channel functions as a multidisciplinary archive rather than a podcast centered on one permanent host.
Books · Research · Entrepreneurship
Conference organization and publisher
TED
TED is a conference organization and video publisher that distributes short talks about science, society, design, culture and business. Talks are prepared to make an idea accessible to a broad audience.
Ideas · Design · Science
Singapore financial-education media network
The Financial Coconut
The Financial Coconut is a Singapore media and podcast network built from Reggie Koh’s original podcast. It produces conversations and educational formats about personal finance, careers, investing, business and retirement, with recurring attention to the economic context of Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Personal finance · Careers · Investing
Conversation podcast about investing and long-term decisions
The One Percent Show with Vishal Khandelwal
The One Percent Show is a conversation series hosted by Vishal Khandelwal about investing, money, behaviour and a life designed for the long term. Its Apple feed retains the show's historical identifier while now displaying the title The Long Game with Vishal Khandelwal. Ooléle keeps the name under which the Monika Halan conversation was published and records the transition so that one continuing series is not split into duplicate source profiles.
Investing · Long-term decisions · Money psychology
Cloud communications company and publisher
Twilio
Twilio develops a cloud communications platform and publishes technical and product conferences. Its channel documents messaging, identity, customer engagement and the operations required by large-scale digital services.
Cloud communications · Identity · Operations
Public media and documentary publisher
VPRO Documentary
VPRO is a Dutch public broadcaster that produces and distributes documentaries, investigations and cultural programs. Its English-language documentary channel provides access to field films about social, economic and urban change.
Documentary · Cities · Society
Financial-education media organization for physicians and high earners
The White Coat Investor
The White Coat Investor is a US media organization focused on personal finance for physicians, dentists and other high-income professionals. Founded by emergency physician James M. Dahle in 2011, it brings together articles, books, courses, conferences, forums, newsletters, video and several podcasts. Its stated mission is to help this community understand financial products, build a plan and evaluate the advice and services offered to them.
Physician finance · Investing · Retirement
Startup education archive
YC Root Access
YC Root Access is an archive channel associated with Y Combinator’s public startup courses. It preserves lectures from founders and investors about product, culture, hiring and the earliest stages of a company.
Startups · Culture · Hiring